Planet Money: Our Perplexing Economy, Explained

"If you bought [gold] now, you'd be making a slightly less bad mistake than if you bought two months ago," says Planet Money's Alex Blumberg, center. He and co-creator Adam Davidson, right, spoke with host Ophira Eisenberg.

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Originally published on September 26, 2013 3:16 pm

Imagine that you had a fun evening at a bar, chatting with a friend about the economy. That's the essence of NPR's Planet Money. With the aid of a team of reporters, co-creators Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg help listeners make sense of how economic changes impact our lives in an entertaining twice-weekly podcast.

For an Ask Me Another Challenge, we pitted Davidson and Blumberg against each other for a Taboo-style game in which they had to describe economics terms to their Planet Money colleagues — correspondent Robert Smith and producer Caitlin Kenney — using only one-syllable words. And the stakes were real: The losing Planet Money team had to give the winning team all of the cash in their wallets.

In the video below, Davidson gives Stephen Colbert advice on the best times to buy and sell Bitcoin.